National Multilingual Poetry Conference to Highlight Hulasi Road's Plight

Kathmandu. A national multilingual poetry conference is to be organized in Siraha to draw the government's attention to the dilapidated condition of the Hulasi Road, the backbone of Terai-Madhesh, and the bridges along it, which have been under construction since the Rana era.

The conference is scheduled to be held on Saturday, Shrawan 2, at Shri Janata Secondary School in Bariyarpatti, Siraha, under the initiative of the Hulasi Road Struggle Committee. 

For the past 10 years, the people of Siraha have been staging peaceful protests, road blockades, sieges, issuing statements, and even hunger strikes to demand the construction of a bridge over the Kamala River connecting Dhanusha and Siraha. However, that bridge has not yet been constructed.

The public in Siraha and Dhanusha have been raising their voices for the reconstruction of a bridge that collapsed after its construction. The government has also been giving assurances. But the bridge has not been constructed yet, said Ramrijhan Yadav, coordinator of the Hulasi Road Struggle Committee.

He stated that this poetry conference has been organized to pressure for the construction of the Kamala bridge and has called upon poets from all over the country to participate.  

Not only the Kamala River bridge, but the condition of the bridge being built over the Kankai River in Jhapa for the past 15 years is also the same. Similarly, the Bagmati bridge connecting Sarlahi and Rautahat, and the Narayani River bridge connecting Chitwan and Nawalparasi, have also not been completed yet.

Meanwhile, the bridge over the Sahaja River in the Siraha section has been in a dilapidated state for 5 years. The condition in the Dhanusha section is even more dire, said coordinator Yadav.

The conference, with the main theme of the